Lot 60000 – KIngdom of Bithynia, Prusias II Kynegos, 182-149 BC. tetradrachm, 16.90 g.
KIngdom of Bithynia, Prusias II Kynegos, 182-149 BC. AR tetradrachm, 16.90 g. (S33 mm), Nikomedeia. Obverse: head of Prusias II to right, wearing a winged diadem and with a slight beard. Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ Zeus standing left, half draped, crowning the king’s name with an olive wreath held in his right hand and holding a long scepter in his left; to left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt over monogram.
With a remarkably expressive and realistic portrait in Hellenistic style, struck on a nice wide flan. Some minor scratches, and attractive old toning, good very fine.
Ex Gutekunst Collection
Ex Roma Numismatics, auction 7, 2014, lot 730.
Ex O. H. Knoepke Collection, Glendining-Baldwins, December 10 1986, lot 248.
Ex R.C. Lockett Collection, Glendining & Co, February 21 1961, lot 2162.
Ex Clarence S. Bement Collection, Naville VI, 28 January 1924, lot 1360.
Ex Sevastopoulos (Athens) Collection.
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